Second, regarding the driving and brainstorming issue – I suggest using some kind of recording device (minitapes, digital voice recorders, whatever) and dictating the ideas. That way your hands are free to handle the driving and you are still recording your thoughts.

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Sincerely,
Aristae

Anyways, as an amateur looking to step up his game, I believe all this information will help push me in the right direction. I look forward to listening to more!

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter4.html

It’s a free tool for building and organizing novels. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks very robust and comparable to the for-pay programs. My experience leads me to believe that a tool like this could be very useful as long it aids the writing process and does not bog it down.

Here is a review of the software (which is how I found it):
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2275234,00.asp

Has anyone out there used something like this? Until now, I have composed everything in Word, but am considering this for my next project.

For some reason, world-building bores me; I have trouble coming up with ideas. Hopefully this helps. Thanks, guys!

if you need to get ideas down when you’re driving, you can always get an audio recorder and narrate it to yourself

That’s Mistborn, Brandon’s second book.

First, what book is being referrenced by the “den of theives stealing from a dark lord who has already won” comment? I think that Brandon made that, but can’t be sure, and it isn’t mentioned in any of the Bios. That plot concept has got me interested.

Second, the font for the comments, the font on the main page of the site, etc, is rather painful to the eyes, it’s not anti-aliased (or whatever), it’s not smooth, it looks pixelated, and it makes it kinda hard to read. It looks like it’s a great “space saving” font, but I’d suggest a switching to something ever so slightly easier on the eyes. (That’s on both Firefox 2.0.0.6 and Internet Explorer 6.0.29, windowsXP).

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

Morven

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”

Howard, I did a google search to see if there is an accreditation that I need to use if I mention it in a lesson or something (have one at church coming up on Journaling). I found a couple…EM Forester being the primary one…Is this who you were quoting from? Just curious because I want to know for sure before I mention it in a class.

Thanks.

I WANT MORE.

I wish you continued success.

Thanks

No. None of us have the time to transcribe these, however if a fan were to do so we could probably link/post that.

Any show notes that include links to software mentioned?

Thanks,

LDJ

One concern though, the iTunes link directs to a URL that when opened in iTunes says that the item cannot be found in the US store. I don’t know why it won’t work, but

Excellent podcast. Can’t wait until next Monday.

Ken: As Howard said, worldbuilding is a very good thing–we don’t call it worldbuilder’s disease until it becomes a problem that gets in the way of good writing. One of the biggest causes of worldbuilder’s disease, unfortunately, is that so many of our favorite authors avoided it so well. Tolkien and Herbert were two of the most intense world builders ever, and produced arguably the two best/most famous/most successful fantasy novels ever. As budding authors we want to write the next Dune or the next Lord of the Rings or the next Wheel of Time, so we emulate our heroes and, more often than not, get mired in a preparation process that actually impedes our writing more than it helps. So yes, we encourage good worldbuilding, but please don’t overdo it.